Montgomery Roggenbier

Barrel Draught from the jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 01/10/2005 Golden coloured with pale and sour fruit aromas. Crisp on the palate with a slightly bitter fruity flavoured finish.

Fruity, herbal, sweet, grainy aroma. Golden coloured body is lightly hazy with a cover of white head that recedes to ring with some lace. Fieldberries and banana with a light graininess and moderate bitterness. Medium light body with decent carbonation. Sampled at GABF 2005.

Surprisingly strong hops, herbal, leafy and rooty kick the toasted cereals maltiness down, taking most of the place in the nose. Certainly will hidden rye influence, the palate doesn’t deploy much flavour at all, remaining mostly sweet and bready, slightly caramel touched and thin.

Hazy dark gold. Nice and smooth mouthfeel; fairly easy to drink ... aside from a cloying sweetness that lingers a little too long. Banana nose carries into the flavor a little. Flavors/aromas of yeast and bread dough laid on a little too thick. Earthy malts. Bitterness was kind of stark and caught me off-guard.

10.01.05 GABF After the beer I had before this one, a glass of dishwater would’ve been a treat. This stuff is hazy, dark, brassy gold. Yeasty aroma like a bakery before dawn. Fresh and almost like a very flowery hefe. Birdseed (?). Astringent, grassy, spicy, and pretty durn good.

GABF 2005. Dark golden body with a small, fully-fading sudsy white head. Unexpected clove-like aroma and very mild rye notes. Reminds me of a weizenbock. Considerable plastic phenols and fruitiness in the flavor. Prominent spiciness seems to come from both hops and rye. Semi-dry with medium bitterness and a medium-light body. The good part is the mere fact that someone is brewing beer in Alabama. I applaud that anyway.

Pour is light golden with a thin off white head...smell is perfumey, citrus, grain, dough...flavor is very banana and grainy...interesting enough...